In Memory of Memory.

Stepanova, Maria.

In Memory of Memory. - 1 online resource (275 pages)

Intro -- PART I -- PART II -- PART III -- TITLE PAGE -- EPIGRAPH -- I. SOMEONE ELSE'S DIARY -- II. ON BEGINNINGS -- III. A HANDFUL OF PHOTOGRAPHS -- IV. SEX AND THE DEAD -- NOT-A-CHAPTER, 1942 OR 1943 -- V. ALEPH AND WHERE IT LED ME -- VI. A LOVE INTEREST -- VII. INJUSTICE AND ITS DIFFERENT FACETS -- NOT-A-CHAPTER, 1930 -- VIII. RENTS IN THE FABRIC, AND DIVERSIONS -- NOT-A-CHAPTER, 1934 -- IX. THE PROBLEM OF CHOICE -- I. THE JEWBOY HIDES FROM VIEW -- NOT-A-CHAPTER, 1905-1915 -- II. SELFIES AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES -- III. GOLDCHAIN ADDS UP, WOODMAN TAKES AWAY -- IV. MANDELSTAM REJECTS AND SEBALD COLLECTS -- NOT-A-CHAPTER, 1947 -- V. ON ONE SIDE AND ON THE OTHER -- VI. CHARLOTTE, OR ACTS OF INSUBORDINATION -- NOT-A-CHAPTER, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985 -- VII. YAKOV'S VOICE AND ISAV'S PHOTOGRAPH -- VIII. LYODIK, OR SILENCE -- IX. JOSEPH, OR OBEDIENCE -- X. THINGS I DON'T KNOW -- I. YOU CAN'T ESCAPE YOUR FATE -- II. LITTLE LYONYA FROM THE NURSERY -- III. BOYS AND GIRLS -- IV. THE DAUGHTER OF A PHOTOGRAPHER -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- TRANSLATOR'S NOTE -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- COPYRIGHT -- NOT-A-CHAPTER -- 1.

With the death of her aunt, Maria Stepanova is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family managed to survive the twentieth century.

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